Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[CecMiller]

I've created a comparison between eye textures for each clan/race:
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Hey Luna,

Great work with this.

I spotted a potential issue:

The female miqote one (blond hair, brown/black skin) is swapped from 6.5 and 7.0. You can tell by the hair pixels at the very minimum (and the glint in the eye). You may want to correct the collage, but great work!

[Tahli]

Sorry, just wanted to mention that you reversed the before/after of the F Moon Miqo.

[FateweaverAlpha]

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You are absolutely not alone friend. My very dark skinned Duskwight Elezen received the same treatment and folks keep blaming his new haggard appearances on the lighting and that "nothing has changed".
All we can do is keep being vocal about it and hope the dev team hears us and fixes it. It might be a vain hope but hope nonetheless. Praying that someday we can get our handsome boys back and keep playing the game.
For now maybe do what I've been doing and level classes or craft or even just fish. It whiles away the time at least...

[Bunyon]

I feel like the weather effect of Gloom/Astromagnetic Storms could definitely use an update. I'm not sure how exactly but flying around and into those 2D flat textures looks kinda ugly...

If you get that weather when you first unlock the last Endwalker area, the fancy camera shots will frequently go through the textures and doesn't look very good at all.

[Doopliss]

You are absolutely not alone friend. My very dark skinned Duskwight Elezen received the same treatment and folks keep blaming his new haggard appearances on the lighting and that "nothing has changed".
All we can do is keep being vocal about it and hope the dev team hears us and fixes it. It might be a vain hope but hope nonetheless. Praying that someday we can get our handsome boys back and keep playing the game.
For now maybe do what I've been doing and level classes or craft or even just fish. It whiles away the time at least...

This one astounds me because I feel like Elezen men are one of the ones it's so noticeable on. Your chosen face type had the entire structure of its cheekbones changed to something more jagged. It's noticeable on Urianger, too.

They also straight up forgot the clan differences between Wildwood and Duskwight men. Dark under-eye areas are supposed to be a signature for Wildwood men, while smoother faces are for Duskwight men...but now they both use the same Wildwood maps.

[Visthra]

They also straight up forgot the clan differences between Wildwood and Duskwight men. Dark under-eye areas are supposed to be a signature for Wildwood men, while smoother faces are for Duskwight men...but now they both use the same Wildwood maps.

This is why I feel like this issue is slightly different than other’s complaints about their face changes. Our faces literally have the wrong texture, yet the developers are completely silent about it and have never acknowledged this. It’s extremely frustrating.

[FateweaverAlpha]

This one astounds me because I feel like Elezen men are one of the ones it's so noticeable on. Your chosen face type had the entire structure of its cheekbones changed to something more jagged. It's noticeable on Urianger, too.

They also straight up forgot the clan differences between Wildwood and Duskwight men. Dark under-eye areas are supposed to be a signature for Wildwood men, while smoother faces are for Duskwight men...but now they both use the same Wildwood maps.

Yep... I can't stand how he looks now and no amount of Fantasia has been able to "fix him" as people keep telling me to do. His cheekbones, his eye shape, the way his eyebrows are set. His emotes are all wrong. Smile looks concerned. Annoyed looks tired. I have no idea what the were thinking pushing this to live while so many players complained during the Benchmark but hey those Miqo fangs needed fixing more I guess... -_-
I don't blame the Miqos for getting the attention and the fixes I'm just disappointed that they didn't care about the rest of us.

[Khryseis_Astra]

Logged in to my Highlander alt for the first time since Dawntrail release, and there’s some issues… Again, the mouth scaling still does not seem correct for most races. Here the top lip was reduced. Not as much as some other faces I’ve seen, but on this character, it’s made more pronounced by the divot above the upper lip being so much more prominent than it was before, making her look like she has duck lips in most facial expressions. The eyeshadow was also darkened, and even the whites of the eye look gray, so even though her actual eye shape hasn’t changed much, the look is much different. The tip of the nose is also bigger.

I’m holding off on Fantasia for now, because I’m convinced this mouth scaling still isn’t right and maybe it’ll get fixed. My Midlander is okay, except for the dark bags under her eyes that appeared for some reason!

[Feathetaria]

Man, following this thread and also the ones on the JP forum is just so sad. So many people had their characters effectively taken away for absolutely no reason. I can‘t fathom how they looked at this in development and thought to themself „Yeah, lets just change all the facial features our players have used and became attached to for years and years instead of just improving texture quality. This is fine.“

You said it well. My Miqo'te has been depressed and refuses to get out of bed or do msq because she doesn't like the botched plastic surgery that was done to her lips. Anyone telling me to use a fantasia is adding insult to injury because fantasia just makes things worse.

This is honestly like a bad dream. I am just sad at this point

[MeiraStarborne]

If nobody else makes one, I'll make a separate post about limbals later.

I made a post about Au Ra limbal rings a few days ago, but I’d love additional voices. I feel like I’m the only one who turned off their lumbar rings in sheer disappointment and frustration and now feel lost with a character who no longer has her windows to her soul.